- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/403/945
- Title:
- Swift/XRT obs. of unidentified IBIS sources
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/403/945
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The most recent IBIS/ISGRI survey, i.e. the fourth one, lists 723 hard X-ray sources, many still unidentified, i.e. lacking an X-ray counterpart or simply not studied at lower energies, i.e. below 10keV. In order to overcome this lack of X-ray information, we cross-correlated the list of IBIS sources included in the fourth IBIS catalogue with the Swift/X-ray Telescope (XRT) data archive, finding a sample of 20 objects, not yet reported in the literature, for which XRT data could help in the search for the X-ray and hence optical counterpart and/or, for the first time, in the study of the source spectral and variability properties below 10keV. 16 of these objects are new INTEGRAL detections, while four were already listed in the third survey but not yet observed in X-rays.
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- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJS/185/433
- Title:
- SWIRE/Chandra survey in Lockman Hole Field
- Short Name:
- J/ApJS/185/433
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We report a moderate-depth (70ks), contiguous 0.7deg^2^ Chandra survey in the Lockman Hole Field of the Spitzer/SWIRE Legacy Survey coincident with a completed, ultra-deep VLA survey with deep optical and near-infrared imaging in-hand. The primary motivation is to distinguish starburst galaxies and active galactic nuclei (AGNs), including the significant, highly obscured (logN_H_>23) subset. Chandra has detected 775 X-ray sources to a limiting broadband (0.3-8keV) flux ~4x10^-16^erg/cm^2^/s. We present the X-ray catalog, fluxes, hardness ratios, and multi-wavelength fluxes. The logN versus logS agrees with those of previous surveys covering similar flux ranges. The Chandra and Spitzer flux limits are well matched: 771 (99%) of the X-ray sources have infrared (IR) or optical counterparts, and 333 have MIPS 24um detections. There are four optical-only X-ray sources and four with no visible optical/IR counterpart. The very deep (~2.7uJy rms) VLA data yield 251 (>4{sigma}) radio counterparts, 44% of the X-ray sources in the field. More than 40% of the X-ray sources in the VLA field are radio-loud using the classical definition, RL. The majority of these are red and relatively faint in the optical so that the use of RL to select those AGNs with the strongest radio emission becomes questionable. Using the 24um to radio flux ratio (q_24_) instead results in 13 of the 147 AGNs with sufficient data being classified as radio-loud, in good agreement with the ~10% expected for broad-lined AGNs based on optical surveys. We conclude that q_24_ is a more reliable indicator of radio-loudness. Use of RL should be confined to the optically selected type 1 AGN.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJS/216/28
- Title:
- SWXCS III. Cluster catalog from 2005-2012 Swift data
- Short Name:
- J/ApJS/216/28
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present the Swift X-ray Cluster Survey (SWXCS) catalog obtained using archival data from the X-ray telescope (XRT) on board the Swift satellite acquired from 2005 February to 2012 November, extending the first release of the SWXCS. The catalog provides positions, soft fluxes, and, when possible, optical counterparts for a flux-limited sample of X-ray group and cluster candidates. We consider the fields with Galactic latitude |b|>20{deg} to avoid high H I column densities. We discard all of the observations targeted at groups or clusters of galaxies, as well as particular extragalactic fields not suitable to search for faint extended sources. We finally select ~3000 useful fields covering a total solid angle of ~400deg^2^. We identify extended source candidates in the soft-band (0.5-2keV) images of these fields using the software EXSdetect, which is specifically calibrated for the XRT data. Extensive simulations are used to evaluate contamination and completeness as a function of the source signal, allowing us to minimize the number of spurious detections and to robustly assess the selection function. Our catalog includes 263 candidate galaxy clusters and groups down to a flux limit of 7x10^-15^erg/cm2/s in the soft band, and the logN-logS is in very good agreement with previous deep X-ray surveys. The final list of sources is cross-correlated with published optical, X-ray, and Sunyaev-Zeldovich catalogs of clusters. We find that 137 sources have been previously identified as clusters in the literature in independent surveys, while 126 are new detections. Currently, we have collected redshift information for 158 sources (60% of the entire sample).
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/403/2063
- Title:
- SXDF X-ray groups and galaxy clusters
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/403/2063
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present the results of a search for galaxy clusters in the Subaru-XMM Deep Field (SXDF). We reach a depth for a total cluster flux in the 0.5-2keV band of 2x10^-15^erg/cm^2^/s over one of the widest XMM-Newton contiguous raster surveys, covering an area of 1.3deg^2^. Cluster candidates are identified through a wavelet detection of extended X-ray emission. The red-sequence technique allows us to identify 57 cluster candidates. We report on the progress with the cluster spectroscopic follow-up and derive their properties based on the X-ray luminosity and cluster scaling relations.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/IX/43
- Title:
- 1SXPS Swift X-ray telescope point source catalogue
- Short Name:
- IX/43
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present the 1SXPS (Swift-XRT Point Source) catalogue of 151,524 X-ray point-sources detected by the Swift-XRT in 8 years of operation. The catalogue covers 1905 square degrees distributed approximately uniformly on the sky. We analyze the data in two ways. First we consider all observations individually, for which we have a typical sensitivity of ~3e-13 erg.cm^-2^s^-1` (0.3-10 keV). Then we co-add all data covering the same location on the sky: these images have a typical sensitivity of ~9e-14 erg cm^-2^s^-1^ (0.3-10 keV). Our sky coverage is nearly 2.5 times that of 3XMM-DR4, although the catalog is a factor of ~1.5 less sensitive. The median position error is 5.5" (90% confidence), including systematics. Our source detection method improves on that used in previous XRT catalogues and we report >68,000 new X-ray sources. The goals and observing strategy of the Swift satellite allow us to probe source variability on multiple timescales, and we find ~30,000 variable objects in our catalog. For every source we give positions, fluxes, time series (in four energy bands and two hardness ratios), estimates of the spectral properties, spectra and spectral fits for the brightest sources, and variability probabilities in multiple energy bands and timescales.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/IX/58
- Title:
- 2SXPS Swift X-ray telescope point source catalogue
- Short Name:
- IX/58
- Date:
- 22 Feb 2022
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present the 2SXPS (Swift-XRT Point Source) catalog, containing 206,335 point sources detected by the Swift X-ray Telescope (XRT) in the 0.3-10 keV energy range. This catalog represents a significant improvement over 1SXPS, with double the sky coverage (now 3,790deg^2^), and several significant improvements in source detection and classification. In particular, we present for the first time techniques to model the effect of stray light - significantly reducing the number of spurious sources detected. These techniques will be very important for future, large effective area X-ray mission such as the forthcoming Athena X-ray observatory. We also present a new model of the XRT point spread function, and a method for correctly localising and characterising piled up sources. We provide light curves - in four energy bands, two hardness ratios and two binning timescales -- for every source, and from these deduce that over 80,000 of the sources in 2SXPS are variable in at least one band or hardness ratio. The catalog data can be queried or downloaded via a bespoke web interface at https://www.swift.ac.uk/2SXPS, via HEASARC, or in Vizier (IX/58)
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/458/56
- Title:
- TeV gamma-ray blazar X-ray spectral studies
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/458/56
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- This work is a summary of the X-ray spectral studies of 29TeV (10^12^eV, tera-electron-volt) {gamma}-ray emitting blazars observed with Swift/XRT, especially focusing on sources for which the X-ray regime allows us to study the low- and the high-energy ends of the particle distribution function. Variability studies require simultaneous coverage, ideally sampling different flux states of each source. This is achieved using X-ray observations by disentangling the high-energy end of the synchrotron emission and the low-energy end of the Compton emission, which are produced by the same electron population. We focused on a sample of 29 TeV {gamma}-ray emitting blazars with the best signal-to-noise X-ray observations collected with Swift/XRT in the energy range 0.3-10keV during 10yr of Swift/XRT operations. We investigate the X-ray spectral shapes and the effects of different corrections for neutral hydrogen absorption and decompose the synchrotron and inverse Compton components. For five sources (3C 66A, S5 0716+714, W Comae, 4C +21.35 and BL Lacertae) a superposition of both components is observed in the X-ray band, permitting simultaneous, time-resolved studies of both ends of the electron distribution. The analysis of multi-epoch observations revealed that the break energy of the X-ray spectrum varies only by a small factor with flux changes. Flux variability is more pronounced in the synchrotron domain (high-energy end of the electron distribution) than in the Compton domain (low-energy end of the electron distribution). The spectral shape of the Compton domain is stable, while the flux of the synchrotron domain is variable. These changes cannot be described by simple variations of the cut-off energy, suggesting that the high-energy end of the electron distribution is not generally well described by cooling only.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/608/A68
- Title:
- TeV/non-TeV BL Lacs multi-lambda fluxes
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/608/A68
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We have collected the most complete multi-wavelength (6.0-6.0E^-18^cm) dataset of very high energy (VHE) gamma-ray emitting (TeV) BL Lacs, which are the most numerous extragalactic VHE sources. Using significant correlations between different bands, we aim to identify the best TeV BL Lac candidates that can be discovered by the current and next generation of imaging air Cherenkovtelescopes. We formed five datasets from lower energy data, i.e. radio, mid-infrared, optical, X-rays, and GeV gamma-ray, and five VHE gamma-ray datasets to perform a correlation study between different bands and to construct the prediction method. The low energy datasets were averaged for individual sources, while the VHE gamma-ray data were divided into subsets according to the flux state of the source. We then looked for significant correlations and determined their best-fit parameters. Using the best-fit parameters we predicted the level of VHE gamma-ray flux for a sample of 182 BL Lacs, which have not been detected at TeV energies. We identified the most promising TeV BL Lac candidates based on the predicted VHE gamma-ray flux for each source. We found 14 significant correlations between radio, mid-infrared, optical, gamma-ray, and VHE gamma-ray bands. The correlation between optical and VHE gamma-ray luminosity is established for the first time. We attribute this to the more complete sample and more accurate handling of host galaxy flux in our work. We found nine BL Lac candidates whose predicted VHE gamma-ray flux is high enough for detection in less than 25 hours with current imaging air Cherenkov telescopes.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/746/178
- Title:
- The augmented maxBCG cluster catalog
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/746/178
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Reducing the scatter between cluster mass and optical richness is a key goal for cluster cosmology from photometric catalogs. We consider various modifications to the red-sequence-matched filter richness estimator of Rozo et al. (Paper I, 2009ApJ...703..601R) implemented on the maxBCG cluster catalog and evaluate the impact of these changes on the scatter in X-ray luminosity (L_X_) at fixed richness, using L_X_ from the ROSAT All-Sky Catalog as the best mass proxy available for the large area required. Most significantly, we find that deeper luminosity cuts can reduce the recovered scatter, finding that {sigma}_lnLx|{lambda}_=0.63+/-0.02 for clusters with M_500c_>~1.6x10^14^h^-1^_70_M_{sun}_. The corresponding scatter in mass at fixed richness is {sigma}_lnM|{lambda}_~0.2-0.3 depending on the richness, comparable to that for total X-ray luminosity. We find that including blue galaxies in the richness estimate increases the scatter, as does weighting galaxies by their optical luminosity. We further demonstrate that our richness estimator is very robust. Specifically, the filter employed when estimating richness can be calibrated directly from the data, without requiring a priori calibrations of the red sequence. We also demonstrate that the recovered richness is robust to up to 50% uncertainties in the galaxy background, as well as to the choice of photometric filter employed, so long as the filters span the 4000{AA} break of red-sequence galaxies. Consequently, our richness estimator can be used to compare richness estimates of different clusters, even if they do not share the same photometric data. Appendix A includes "easy-bake" instructions for implementing our optimal richness estimator, and we are releasing an implementation of the code that works with Sloan Digital Sky Survey data, as well as an augmented maxBCG catalog with the {lambda} richness measured for each cluster.
870. The BAX Database
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/B/bax
- Title:
- The BAX Database
- Short Name:
- B/bax
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present BAX, Base de Donnees Amas de Galaxies X (http://bax.ast.obs-mip.fr), a multi-wavelength database dedicated to X-ray clusters and groups of galaxies allowing detailed information retrieval. BAX is designed to support astronomical research by providing access to published measurements of the main physical quantities and to the related bibliographic references: basic data stored in the database are cluster/group identifiers, equatorial coordinates, redshift, flux, X-ray luminosity (in the ROSAT band) and temperature, and links to additional linked parameters (in X-rays, such as spatial profile parameters, as well as SZ parameters of the hot gas, lensing measurements, and data at other wavelengths, such as optical and radio). The clusters and groups in BAX can be queried by the basic parameters as well as the linked parameters or combinations of these. We expect BAX to become an important tool for the astronomical community. BAX will optimize various aspects of the scientific analysis of X-ray clusters and groups of galaxies, from proposal planning to data collection, interpretation and publication, from both ground based facilities like MEGACAM (CFHT), VIRMOS (VLT) and space missions like XMM-Newton, Chandra and Planck.
